...lovers: PoetryVisualized.com

If you’re into poetry, the coolest place to go to in the internet now is PoetryVisualized.com. Although it’s still relatively new and not yet discovered by many, poetryvisualized.com (PV for short) can already give you hours of pure, literary, poetic enjoyment from some of the best, if not the best and most creative poets and artists in the internet. Because PV’s focus is mainly on visualized poetry, you can – without having to do a lot of searching and time-consuming sorting through tons of other kinds of videos - just sit back and savor poetry at its best. And, it’s presented to you in an “enhanced” version – that is, with music and visuals as interpreted by the poet contributor. The musical choices themselves are already quite good, and the visuals – photographs, videos, arts/graphics and even animation – are almost always, stunning, simply outstanding!!!. The add to that the beauty of the poem itself in both its content and of course the delivery. Taken all together, you have right there a full repertoire or menu, of delightful, enjoyable, educational, thought-provoking, and inspiring session on the internet.

This is the precisely main reason for poetryvisualized.com’s coming into being: to provide a “home” dedicated solely and principally only to poetry – most specifically, visualized poetry. Catering not so much to everyone, but particularly to those who create and appreciate poetry as an art form, a means of expression and a delightful source of personal entertainment. With such a base site, those who enjoy poetry can spend their time – whether just a few minutes, or for several hours – on enjoying, savoring their favorite poems – rather than frustratingly hopping from one site to another, with so many other non-poetry videos (or distractions??) in between. In a way, it’s like going to a museum, for those who like art. Of course you can always bump into all sorts of art pieces in many large places like a mall, or huge public park. But if you want to simply focus on artistic works, you would logically go to a museum or art gallery. The same thing with poetry in the internet. There are gazillions of poems and poetic videos out there – in YouTube, LiveVideo, and innumerable other sites. But if you want to spend your time just on viewing and appreciating video poetry – as opposed to looking for them and jumping from one site to another, your best and most logical option would be to hangout at poetryvisualized.com

At this stage – just a little over two months since its launching, poetryvisualized.com is still in the early stages of building up its archives. But, it is growing every day – and the quality of its content submissions make up for the tremendous quantity of other video submissions elsewhere in the internet. Our community of poets, artists, writers, teachers, and just plain poetry lovers is also continuously expanding. While we are hoping for more numbers, still the quality of the visitors and members – with a more refined taste for high literary and cultural value entertainment – is remarkable.

The bottom line is, at long last, there is a well-deserved place for poetry and visualized poetry, in the internet. It is a home for all people who love and enjoy poetry as one of the highest forms of meaningful human expression. That home is PoetryVisualized.com. Our Home. Welcome home!!! And while you’re here, sit back, relax and ENJOY!!!

The Festival of Visualized Poetry was launched in March 2008 by PoetryVisualized.com as its initial effort at promoting interest in visual poetry over the internet. The festival is open to anyone who can produce a Video Poem, a format of poetic expression which combines a poem with sounds, music and visual images. Poetryvisualized.com is itself a recently launched website which focuses primarily on showcasing Video Poems, and whose stated goal is to promote visualized poetry as an emerging genre in the renaissance of poetry in the 21st Century. In many ways, we are like YouTube, except that we specialize in presenting poetry combined with music and images says Tansel Yilmaz, one of the website's founders.

The Festival will be for a period of at least six months and could be extended up to one year. The winning entries will be included in a feature film documentary on visualized poetry which will be produced and released in DVD. It could also be released through television and submitted to film festivals, according to Rod Underhill, the Chief Visionary Officer and General Counsel of PoetryVisualized.com. Mr. Underhill, who is also one of the original founders of the widely successful MP3.com says the festival provides an opportunity for budding, new artists, poets, film directors and producers to get their works published by becoming part of a documentary film project which will be submitted to film festivals, released through television and sold to the public as DVDs.

Participation is open to the public, 18 years and older. The poems can be original composition, or previously published poetry. There is so much material out there, already in the public domain that can be used in this contest from the works of William Shakespeare, to Robert Frost, or Edgar Allan Poe, that one does not have to be a poet to participate says Rod Underhill. You do need to have the visionary creativity and imagination of a poet combined with the talent for video editing and production – the kind of stuff a lot of people already do on YouTube, Mr. Underhill adds. The subject is open on a wide ranging category from love to social commentary. It should be produced as a Video Poem or Visualized Poem, (VPoem, for short), from 1 to 10 minutes in length, in which the poem is read with accompanying sounds, music, and visual images. The images can be still photographs, videos, graphics, animation or a combination of all, where imagery projects the message of poem as interpreted by the artist.

Submission of entries starts this week through direct uploads to its website, [link]. Entries can also be submitted by mail in DVD/CD/VD on standard, popular video file formats (Quick Time, AVI, swf, wmv, flv, mpeg, rm, vob, 3gp, asf.) to 1424 East 2nd Street #2, Long Beach, CA, 90802

Long Beach, CA (PRWEB) February, 2008 PoetryVisualized.com has announced the launching of phase one of their visualized poetry website. Visualized poetry concerns the artistic translation of text into motion graphics, film and video.

Visual poetry, is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. It is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry, and at one time was synonymous with it. Wikiepedia.org.

PoetryVisualized.com intends to capitalize on the growing popularity of the poetry slam phenomenon as well as the general public's increasing interest in online video streaming, while addressing the public's desire for higher quality works of art in contrast to the great mass of unfiltered content made available from amateur contributors.

Phase one shall provide the public with the ability to upload and share visual poetry clips and to take part in the online community features offered by the PoetryVisualized.com website. Phase Two, to be launched shortly, shall provide advanced collaboration, creation and distribution features and tools and shall be combined with income sharing tools for site contributors. The patent pending ORCES technology shall, in part, support PoetryVisualized.com's efforts to be the leader in the arts community and online video applications.

Attorney Rod Underhill represents PoetryVisualized.com: a cofounder of MP3.com and the futurist who helped engineer their 6.9 billion dollar public offering. Further details about PoetryVisualized.com may be found at the site (www.PoetryVisualized.com)